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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life), 1924

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Medium

bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

Dimensions

book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1980, nos. 611, 759-807

Accession Number

2012.92.41.1-50

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Georg Heym (author) German, born Poland, 1887 - 1912

Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig (printer)

Kurt Wolff (publisher) German, 1887 - 1963

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Provenance

(Sotheby's New York, November 14, 1985, lot 67); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

2014: Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1980: Dube, Wolf-Dieter. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: 1980, nos. 611, 759-807.

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